He looked spent half way through the match but Dean was all over him from the get go. Vegas means little to nothing now that Dean just avenged the loss in a very convincing way. It cracks me up when a guy gets broke by an opponent, his fan base says something is wrong with him (fly, injury, bad cut). The bottom line is he got worked.

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He looked spent half way through the match but Dean was all over him from the get go. Vegas means little to nothing now that Dean just avenged the loss in a very convincing way. It cracks me up when a guy gets broke by an opponent, his fan base says something is wrong with him (fly, injury, bad cut). The bottom line is he got worked.

Eh. Dean scored off ZZ's shots. I don't think he took one the whole match. ZZ looked spent right away. I've got no problem saying he didn't look good and props to Dean but that match was an anomoly. If they wrestle again it'll be different.

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A lot of cornell’s TDs were counter shots. VT for the most was the aggressors in neutral. Mitch Moore nearly converted that headlock inside trip on yanni d. Yanni did yanni stuff and went full split and scored the TD. He’s world class. Mitch is gonna wreck some guys at NCAA’s. AA might be a stretch, but if he gets hot, it’s a possibility.

Prata looks much improved. He’s probably gonna have to steal a spot at ACC’s since they might have a low allocation at 125. He gets mueller tomorrow night.

Myers looked horrible. Tucker is good but that wasn’t even s close match.

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Prata has never looked better, but I think this was an anomaly. He isn’t likely to qualify for NCAAs.

Prata did some kind of yoga deep breathing thing that was kind of funny. He’s wrestling with confidence but a little too tentative. I worried he’d get hit with stalling because he didn’t shoot much. That was probably the game plan though. Not sure that will work with mueller either. He’s. Got a great hi-c but needs to pull the trigger

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I don’t know the qualification requirements but Prata doesn’t have a very good resume at the moment. No real good wins, and Vito was the first ranked guy he didn’t get majored by. Also lost to Thomas of WV who is 13-12 and White of Clarion as well as a few redshirts.

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So is this intentional that teams keep opening their duals with the best matchup?

Koll is always big on random opening weights. They aren't supposed (allowed?) to pick the opening weights: either start at 125 or pick a *random* weight class.

The ACC announcers, who were surprisingly knowledgeable about the Cornell wrestlers and other Cornell related information, speculated that choosing a random
class gives Vito the chance at more than just a one hour weigh-in. That would also help explain this comment from Koll in his post-VT write-up:

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Chas wrestled one of his best matches to date. He completely dominated his #14 ranked opponent. Chas made his weight better than at any other time this year and it showed. We expect this to continue!

Any random start would be at least as good as the normal start at 125 for these guys, if making weight is an issue. Yianni really blocked things up :-)